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Conditions for 3G Service Auction Expected in 3 Months

BANGKOK: -- The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Office Commission expects to conclude 3G conditions bidding for 2.1 Gigahertz within three months. Competitors will be able to propose their bids for the license in the third quarter of this year.

One of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Office Commissioners or NBTC, Colonel Sethapong Malisuwan pointed out that the conditions of the 2.1 Gigahertz frequency wave will be concluded within three months, before the license bidding begins in the third quarter of this year.

Meanwhile, the reserve price remains at 1.28 billion baht. However, the commissioners will reconsider this. Colonel Sethapong expects to have more than three competitors participate in the bidding. He affirmed that the bidding will be processed fairly.

Any new service providers who do not have their own basic communication structures will be able to rent them from the NBTC. The Telephone Organization of Thailand or TOT and the Communications Authority of Thailand or CAT will be able to rent as well to generate more revenue in the future.

Communications Consumer Protection Commissioner Prawit Lisathapornwongsa held a talk with five mobile service providers today, including Advance Info Services or AIS, Total Exact Communication or DTAC, True Move, CAT, and TOT to register the mobile phone users who use prepaid promotions, and to reduce the number of days to transfer mobile phone numbers to other service providers.

According to the previous announcement, mobile phone numbers should be transferred within three business days. Currently, the transfer service fee is 99 baht per phone number each time.

The NBTC has been looking for ways to bring the service fee down to 40 baht. Furthermore, mobile service providers will be asked to expand with more phone networks nationwide.

Since December 05 of last year to December 06 of this year, a total of 310,000 mobile phone numbers have registered to transfer to other service providers, and 230,000 phone numbers have been transferred.

Only one percent of mobile phone transferring occurs in Thailand, the lowest rate in the world.


-- Tan Network 2012-02-08

[wpcoe]

Do people actually refer to it as "2.1 Gigahertz?"  It took me a moment to realize they were talking about "2100Mhz."

[thaicbr]

wpcoe, on 2012-02-09 03:33:53, said:

Do people actually refer to it as "2.1 Gigahertz?"  It took me a moment to realize they were talking about "2100Mhz."

well its special here because its Thai. I also find it laughable that they are restricting each auction block to just 15mhz of space.

[MJo]

thaicbr, on 2012-02-09 10:18:43, said:

wpcoe, on 2012-02-09 03:33:53, said:

Do people actually refer to it as "2.1 Gigahertz?"  It took me a moment to realize they were talking about "2100Mhz."

well its special here because its Thai. I also find it laughable that they are restricting each auction block to just 15mhz of space.

Well it will be interesting to see who will be getting the individual blocks and then duly re-selling/leasing them to the operators...

[thaicbr]

MJo, on 2012-02-15 03:54:00, said:

thaicbr, on 2012-02-09 10:18:43, said:

wpcoe, on 2012-02-09 03:33:53, said:

Do people actually refer to it as "2.1 Gigahertz?"  It took me a moment to realize they were talking about "2100Mhz."

well its special here because its Thai. I also find it laughable that they are restricting each auction block to just 15mhz of space.

Well it will be interesting to see who will be getting the individual blocks and then duly re-selling/leasing them to the operators...

Yep.. i'm not even sure why CAT and TOT are in the auctions. They can not run a mobile service even if its gifted to them with 18mths lead time over every one else... then in the case of Cat have to get some other company in to run it ...true 3h